Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 13
In vain he declared his innocence; he was dismissed with no better answer.
Who acts: king · What happens: declare, dismiss · To what, where: innocence, vain, king
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 declared | nsubj |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 dismissed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dismissed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dismissed | aux:pass |
| 10 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 declared | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 answer | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 answer | det |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 answer | amod |
| 14 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dismissed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | king | king's innocence | vain | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=Attribute | |||
| 2 | dismiss | past · passive | king | with no better answer | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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